On 20 December 2017 at 06:00, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 19 Dec 2017, at 08:51, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 2017-12-19, at 2:15 AM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 18 Dec 2017, at 03:14, Jean-Christophe Helary < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> A client is kind of requesting that I install an anti-virus/malware on > my mac… > >> > >> Explain to them the reasons this is a bad idea. > > > > OK, why is this a bad idea? > > That is a very long post I'm not willing to make again. The many and > varied issues with AV are well documented not eh Internet. The short list > is that AV software introduces its own deep vulnerabilities and exposes > your system to those new flaws that the OS vendor can't mitigate and that > it draws excessive resources. There are more issues than those, of course. > > <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/technology/kaspersky-lab-antivirus.html> has the long answer.
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